Establish western coordination organization.
1. Review the membership and charter of the WRSC and adapt to reflect a new focus on implementation of the Cohesive Strategy.
2. Hire a regional coordinator and secure funding from WRSC membership organizations to provide self-sustaining leadership and coordination.
3. Establish work groups to accomplish the actions identified in this Action Plan. Reach out to existing local groups and Tribes to help staff the work groups and to facilitate coordinated outcomes.
4. WRSC leadership convenes work group members from Landscape Resilience, Fire Adapted Communities and Wildfire Response groups to identify mechanisms for integration and removal of barriers.
5. Monitor and share awareness of collaborative efforts in the West to leverage Cohesive Strategy implementation with non-related efforts with overlapping goals and objectives, and seek opportunities to collaborate to leverage efforts.
6. Develop a Western Regional Cohesive Strategy archive.
Katie Lighthall
541-408-3048
klighthall@bendcable.com
Short Term (0-2 years)
Other Collaborators are WRSC members. Task 1 - New WRSC Guidance Doc completed in April 2013. Approved by WFEC Oct 2013. May 2014 WFLC dissolved WFEC, WRSC moving forward with Transition Plan and will inform WFLC and new national group. Task 2 - RSC Coordinator hired in Feb 2013 with USFS funding through contract with WGA. Task 3 - Establishing work groups that will span time for implementation. Regional Communications Group. Multiple WRSC members involved in national work groups to assess barriers and critical success factors. Task 4 -WRSC participated in review of Fuels Barriers, also provided work group members to assist national task groups in updating CSF/B – Aug 2013 This is occurring at the national level and will continue through completion of NAP. Task 5 - Continually share collaborative efforts in eNews. Monitoring pilot projects across the West, sharing as developments occur. Seeking ongoing working relationships with FAC and FLN to leverage efforts where possible. Task 6 - Likely be hosted at F&R.gov, working on what all to archive. This has been suggested multiple times - Regional Comm WG to decide on what to archive. April 2014 - had an opportunity to archive documents for the region, but turned out it was for internal use only, not public facing. In the meantime, Katie has posted the WRAP and the YIR at ISSUU. Continuing to discuss with Comms WG how we can better host these documents for all to see and EASILY access. F&R.gov continues to be slow and cumbersome. June 2014 update: started a blog to support western CS efforts and archive western documents. westerncohesivestrategy.blogspot.com
